India
and Children and young people

Capital: New Delhi

Population: 1173108018

Size: 3287590.0 Km2

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This report is on using behaviour change communication to impact positively on caring practices for children under two years of age in India. It has the following sections:
Academic Literature
Cochrane
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The basic objective of this study is to examine the impact of public expenditure on health and education after incorporating the linkages between health status of children and their educational achievements in India. The study has dev...

Phototherapy treatment : Over decades, phototherapy has been used as a safe, effective treatment of neonatal jaundice. It involves use of light to convert bilirubin molecules in the body into water-soluble isomers that can be excreted...

This documentscontains the agenda and titles of papers presented at: International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP) XXVII International Population Conference Busan, Korea 31 August 2013.
The document include...

India is home to one of the largest and fastest-growing youth populations in the world. Currently it has 330 million people aged 10–24 and if one goes by the national definition of youth (ages 13–35), then youth constitute...

Although there is no definite policy on residential schooling in general or for girls in particular, several residential schooling strategies exist for girls in the public school system in India. There also exist certain small-scale r...

Malnutrition is often incorrectly perceived merely as a food problem. Under nutrition, hunger and food insecurity are not the same thing. Malnutrition is a complex multi-determinant problem. Malnutrition is a result of impact of immed...

The basic rationale for exploring agriculture-nutrition linkage in developing countries is the existence of high level of undernutrition among rural population and a high level of their dependence on agriculture for livelihood.
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Moving from one school to another is a significant event for children, marked by new experiences and challenges. Changing schools can be difficult in terms of the curriculum, language, physical facilities in the school, change of frie...

The role for education in natural disaster management that appeared most frequently in the literature is teaching children risk reduction and management material. Children often spread learning to their families and communities and ma...

The Goodwill Social Work Centre aims to:
promote the overall development of children, youth and women in rural and urban areas in India, who are socially and economically deprived
provide family-centred home-based intensive services to children, youth and women in dysfunctional families in slums and backward areas in India
sensitise rural and ur...

Butterflies is an NGO that works with street children in Delhi, India. The organisations programmes include education, health, saving schemes, a crisis centre, children's media, and vocational training. Butterflies has a research and advocacy centre that focuses on child rights issues. These include
nutritional status of street children
child labour
non formal education
Butter...

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